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Kingfisher (family Alcedinidae) for #Feathursday! #SciArt "drawn from nature" by George Edwards in 1761. Published in his "Gleanings of Natural History" (1758-1764), contributed in #BHLib from @NLB: https://t.co/aCJY07YiM2 #birds #birbs
Happy #BotanicMonday! Georg Ehret's "Plantae et papiliones rariores" (1748-1759), which was published plate-by-plate to subscribers over a ten-year period. It is freely available in #BHLib thanks to @National_Ag_Lib @USDA_ARS: https://t.co/mEQljgSLgf
Ornithologist John Latham's (born #OTD 1740) "General Synopsis of Birds" was translated into German by Johann Matthäus Bechstein, a pioneer in German ornithology. Explore "Allgemeine Uebersicht der Vögel" ([1792]-1812) in #BHLib via @NHM_Library: https://t.co/bzLTLFyle4 #HistSci
The 1905 edition of "The Flowering #Plants, Grasses, Sedges & #Ferns of Great Britain" by Anne Pratt (new edition revised by Edward Step) includes 319 plates figuring upwards of 1,500 species. In #BHLib via @NYBG: https://t.co/ToT0BNpG94 #WomenInScience #SciArt
Beautiful #shells from "D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer" for #MolluskMonday! This 1705 work by Rumpf details the marine life of Amboina (Ambon) in what is now eastern Indonesia & features #SciArt by Maria Sybilla Merian. In #BHLib via @museumsvictoria @bhl_au: https://t.co/iB5ie7ZIIv
What makes #Feathursday so great? #Feathers! #SciArt attributed on plate to J. Terrier from Faune de la Sénégambie: #Oiseaux (1884) by Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune. Contributed to #BHLib by the Research Library of the @FieldMuseum: https://t.co/77sek3dR0V -- #Ornithology #birds
Jean Baptiste Vérany's "Mollusques méditeranéens: Céphalopodes" (1851) describes specimens fished from the Mediterranean Sea and features chromolithographed plates depicting octopuses, squids, and cuttlefishes. In #BHLib via @SILibraries: https://t.co/LNTMPk4x1c #CephalopodWeek
Schizodactylus monstrosus for @insectweek #NIW2018! This large #cricket is found in #Asia. #SciArt by Richard Polydore Nodder for George Shaw's "The Naturalist's Miscellany" (1789-1813), V.18. Contributed to #BHLib by @museumsvictoria @bhl_au: https://t.co/8ilixpUe54
Richard Owen's 1st monograph, "Memoir on the pearly nautilus" (1832), described Nautilus pompilius for the 1st time in detail as a comprehensive study in comparative anatomy utilizing both text & illustrations. In #BHLib via @SILibraries: https://t.co/QWQul09h5C #CephalopodWeek
🐝 For @insectweek #NIW2018, explore the natural history and classification of bees, wasps and ants in "Naturgeschichte, Klassification und Nomenclatur der Insekten" (1791) by Johann Ludwig Christ, in #BHLib via @IllinoisLibrary: https://t.co/DHsEHYg0eM